2billion is a hard limit. Usually people split indexes into multiple
index long before this, and use the parallel multi reader (I think) to
read from all of the sub-indexes.
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Zhang, Lisheng
<Lisheng.Zhang@broadvision.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Now lucene uses integer as document id, so it means we cannot have more
> than 2^31-1 documents within one collection? Even if we use MultiSearcher
> the document id is still integer so it seems this is still a problem?
>
> We have been using lucene for some time and our document count is growing
> rather rapidly, maybe this is a much-discussed issue already, but I did not
> find the lead, any pointer would be really appreciated.
>
> Thanks very much for helps, Lisheng
>
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